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World of Warcraft Fan Server Turtle WoW Aims to Bring WoW an Unreal Engine 5 Upgrade | MMORPG.com
Turtle WoW, a private World of Warcraft server, is bringing WoW into the modern era with an Unreal Engine 5 upgrade.
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You've got Outlands for UO - doing more than broadsword ever will.
You've got these guys for Wow - again, doing more than the developers.
How do you have millions of players and millions coming in and not do a graphics upgrade and work to keep the game current and huge for additional years to come?
Also, LOL:
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Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
That's the logic they follow. The gamer base is not composed of only Western Europe and North American gamers. That is only circa 40%. The rest of the players run WoW on a Potato.
Blizz knows that
Partly true. If these private server guys are able to do the core thing of this supposed graphic update (which is for it to be a toggle option, not really a 'one-size-fits-all' approach) then it kind of leaves Blizzard with less public excuses outside of just not wanting to invest the money. If SE did that approach with their new DT graphical upgrade (making it a toggle instead of forced), they'd have less blowback atm.
Blizzard needn't make excuses. If considered it will be on the basis of whether spending the money to do so is worthwhile. If they don't feel it will in some way boost their profitability they likely won't bother.
What are your grand achievements?
When deciding where to focus developers a studio will look at the following
Impact on the game - What will it bring will it get people excited, get people talking/streaming (free marketing and the most powerful there is)
Return on investment - this is the money side, if we put the man hours into this, what is it going to get us back.
Opportunity cost - If Blizz have 200 devs (number pulled out of my backside) and it takes 40 to work on this for a year, that means those Devs cant be working on something else. What other stuff could those 40 devs make in that time, would that be more impactful and offer a bigger impact and ROI.
Game development is rarely as simple as just throwing money/resources at a problem, and there is a strange comparison with real life to be made.
When you are young, lets say a student, you have plenty of free time but cant afford to do all the things you want, same when you are a small indie dev, you have the time to invest but not always the money.
When you are older, working a regular job, meeting family and social commitments etc, you have disposable income, but only so many hours in a day.
Same when you are a big triple A studio.
If the 40 devs needed to make this happen, could also make a Housing system, or some other highly requested feature, or 2 new battlegrounds, 2 new dungeons or maybe Guild halls, but you can only have one thing, which would it be?
Did you ever? Most put priority on their own needs or that of their loved ones. Where companies seek to maximize profits consumers seek to maximize the value they get for their money. Our entire economy is primarily motivated by the self-interest of all parties involved.